Scam sites run rampant on search engines like Google, as malicious actors attempt to steal precious personal data and financial information using phony websites posing as the real thing. To thwart ...

Like an ant scrambling to rebuild its home after being stepped on, a small website trying to grab Google's attention after falling off the company's search algorithm can feel helpless. That's how ...

Major technology companies, including Google, Apple, and Discord, have been enabling people to quickly sign up to harmful “undress” websites, which use AI to remove clothes from real photos to make ...

It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions of websites’ robots.txt files in an effort to force Google to change how it crawls ...

Google's Liz Reid, in response to all the third-party studies, wrote on the Google blog, "Overall, total organic click volume from Google Search to websites has been relatively stable year-over-year." ...

Community journalism is at the heart of democracy, and if it goes away because of social media platforms like Google and Facebook, everyone will suffer. The Associated Press Google, whose original ...

Google’s “+1” initiative, announced in late March, is finally ready for its big debut on sites across the web. Similar to Facebook’s “Like” button, +1 will live on some of the websites you frequent ...

New data from BrightEdge shows significant changes to Google AI Overviews, prioritizing topic-specific sites and a stronger focus on ecommerce ahead of the year-end shopping season. An interesting ...

Google's major search algorithm updates this past year have left many smaller websites with no other choice than to lay off staff. The internet is worse for it. Imad is a senior reporter covering ...